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4) Flyaway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
Author
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
What does you in-brain or heart?
Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world in which one moment can turn things so thoroughly for the worse. She discovers an elegant wooden box with an inscription: Frances Anne 1000. Inside, Frannie...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.
Author
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she was six years-old Carys "Clancy" Edwards's mother died in a skydiving accident and in the ten years since her father has refused to even let her think about skydiving, despite the fact that it is his business--but Clancy is now sixteen and she is beginning to think that it is time to break out of the protective cocoon her father has woven around her.
Author
Language
English
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Description
As the summer of love comes to an end, fifteen-year-old Ida Petrovich waits for a father who will never return. He's been lost at sea while commercial fishing, but with no body and no wreckage, his death can only be presumed. While she and her mother struggle with this uncertain loss, Ida makes a series of troubling discoveries that sends her running away to Alaska on a quest for answers.--from publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Macy Hollinquest is eleven years old, and don't count on her to change that anytime soon. Her birthday is just days away, but she has no intention of turning twelve without her dad by her side. He'd promised to be there for her big day, and yet he's been gone for months--away after his discharge from the army, doing some kind of top secret, "important work."
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